Sorry I left out Bitter but i just couldn't equate freedom to bitter, I'll take it as a write in candidate though. I also didn't put in a Lambic, but thats just because I'm scared to try brewing one...

IPA stands for India Pale Ale, very trendy in the states now with the micro-brew renaissance.

If this post coalesces into in good string of GNU-Brew ideas, I'll brew the batch as the community dictates (I reserve the right to do some debugging) and post tasting notes and pictures.

They called it IPA because it traveled well for the 1800's it got send to the colonies to keep the troops happy most of it to India hence the name,quite a few breweries here in Canada also shipped to India at that time.